Surrey has a population of approximately one million people. The county town is Guildford, which despite having a University, a Castle and a Cathedral is not a city. Unusually, the county administration is based outside of the county's current boundaries in Kingston upon Thames and has been since April 1, 1965 when that area, and others, were included within Greater London by an act of Parliament[1]. Recent plans to move the offices to a new site in Woking have now been abandoned.


